Manufacturing Plant Fire Put Out After 3 Hours
Firefighters extinguished oil that caught fire in a vat inside a saw manufacturing company east of the Mid-City area and north of the Santa Monica Freeway.
At 12:41 a.m. Friday, 40 firefighters were sent to the Western Saw company at 1842 W. Washington Blvd., said Jim Wells, city Fire Department spokesman. It took more than three hours for firefighters to get the blaze out. No injuries were reported. A hazardous-materials team was called out because oil was burning, Wells said, adding that there apparently were no other hazardous materials involved in the blaze.
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